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MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer

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Resurfaced independently across 4 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
5
submitters
5
observed span
2016–2023
peak thread · 64 comments
334 pts
latest 20+ return · 2023-10-28
334 pts

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2007–2026

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I've never used it, but (from what I've seen) is a great tool for modeling Voxels. Shameless plug: The format (and the tool) has been used with great success in Veloren, an Open Source Voxel MMORPG written in rust (https://www.veloren.net/). The artist team has made great assets for the game and landscapes for the release parties. Your should check out the project, it is really cool. (Disclaimer: I'm part of the mod team.)

I highly recommend people check this out if you're interested in voxel graphics, or a simple way to make 3D graphics if you're artistically challenged like me. We used it to make a whole game and it was great: https://www.larvalabs.com/project/roadtrip Here are some other awesome things made with it: https://twitter.com/HuntingFluff/status/1046417418459975681 https://twitter.com/Sir_carma/status/1051867299303440384 And in general I recommend following Sir Carma for inspiration: https://twitter.com/Sir_carma

Here are some examples of what talented artist can create with this tool: http://imgur.com/gallery/8zEE1/

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I was hoping this had been posted because there was a new version released. Keep meaning to spend time with this, but I start looking at videos to learn it and surprisingly there are still so few.

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
795

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Total comments
159

reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking

Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2016-01-22MagicaVoxel – a free 8-bit voxel editorFirst breakoutinfinite8s14143
2017-08-04MagicaVoxelbreck253
2018-12-20MagicaVoxel: A free voxel art editor and path tracing rendererTideflat29364
2023-02-073D modeling for any skill level – MagicaVoxelmch8221
2023-10-28MagicaVoxel – A free voxel art editor and interactive path tracing rendererHall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point returnselvan33448